Restaurants in Spain have changed significantly over the last 50 years. They have evolved from traditional "ventas" in the 1940s serving healthier, homemade meals to a much wider variety of cuisines today influenced by globalization. Menus now offer more options but incorporate more fast food and processed ingredients compared to historical dishes like "cazuela". Furniture has also modernized, shifting from rustic wood to larger, minimalist spaces with metal and leather seating. Lifestyles with less cooking time have made fast food popular, while immigration introduced foreign cuisines like Indian and Mexican to Spanish restaurant culture.

1. Restaurants, menus, furniture, food
and habits in Spain

2. How have restaurants
changed in the last 50 years?
 In Spain, restaurants have changed a lot. In
the 1940’s, our grandparents used to go to
restaurants called ‘ventas’

3. Nowadays, there are a lot of types of
restaurants thanks to the globalization
because society has changed and now
lifestyles are different.

4. We have less time to prepare our meal
and because of that, we go to fast food
restaurants and the tastes has changed
too

5. Menus
 Before, the restaurants menus were
healthier and consistent than now, but
they used to eat ‘cazuela’, ‘fideos’,
‘potaje’…

6. These days, there are more varieties of
menus. In fact, restaurants use more
fast food than before and it is less
prepared because modern food use
chemical products.

7. Furnitures
 Furnitures were made of wood and they
were rustic. There used to be less
tables and space than now.

8.  Currently, furnitures are more modern
and they are made of iron, metal and
leather. The restaurants are bigger and
minimalist.

9. Food and habits
 In Spain there are a lot of different kinds
of food in restaurants. You can find
Indian, mexican, chinese… food. It has
been because a lot of foreigns have
come to Spain and they have created
their own restaurants.
 Fast food is fashionable now because
we do not a lot of time to cook.

11.  We hope you enjoy and
we invite you to try our
food and you have
learnt about the
changes in our foods.